Improvement in foot-measures



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JOHN-enanas F. BREMSER, yorsir.'nouns;lltissouru.

`'Letters Patent N 106,314, dated August 16, 1'870.

IMPROVEMENT 51N uPooT-MxzzaSURE:s:

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making -padri: of Vthe saine' To all whom it ina- 1j concern: YBe it known that I, JOHN CHARLES F. B nEMsnn,

I of St. Louis, in the county'of St. Louis and State ot' Missouri, have made a1 certain new and useful Im- 'proved Foot-Rulof and'I do hereby declare that the following is a fullfand true description thereof,

reference being had `to vthe accompanying drawing,r and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The natnre'o'f this invention .consists in the-combination of' the usual forni of fol'Jt-rules for lengthmeasurement with a proper rule i'or measuringits thickness. :Besides the usual scale, the mfain tablet has also lthe scale indicating last or boot sizes corre- ,rpondnig to the measurements ofthe ordinary scaleopposite thereto.

lo enable those-herein skilled to make and use my said invention, I will now more fully describethe same. d

The scale B represents the-different numbers indicative ot the sizes of boots, shoes, Sto., known to the trade and custonn-and the scale B'is properly the inch-scale, to indicatef at what place from the heel the width of the foot and the width of. the last are tohe measured,

Iarrange on` the face-'oi' said tablet a metal plate or strip, B2, having its upper end secured at I1", and

.extending loosely and centrally the full length oi' said "'tablet.. Its lower end b', however, is inclined to'a curve, in accordance with the-angle ofthe heel, and is properly attached vto the heel-boartl A'.

. The slide C I Aconnect with vthe tablet,- so as to nfj ford it the proper movement, as shown in lig. 2. x In order to measure the thickness of the foot at thehe'el, instep, or othcrparts ofthe foot, I have arrangedfasecond slideLDl, guided in its longitudinal motion over tlietablet by thc .side bars E, while -a further guide is taken on4 the cent-ral strip ol'n1etal ,-B".j The slide I) projects sutlciently beyond the guides E to form handles e.

In the center said slide forms 'a raised spring, andi there are two mortises cut centrally in said springsr at e?, vthrough which one of'the usual steel foot-rules D or t other measuring-rule is inserted.

The slide D is properly` slotted, as shown lat e?, to

allow furthe vertical motion of the same. This ena- -bles the'op'erator to draw the foot-rule D closelyfup f againstthe hollow ot' ithe foot, as inthe instep-measu remcnt. l i

The use of `the'insti'ument is apparent, and its ap- .A plicability is readily understood by those familiar.withV the errors so frequently made with the ordinary nieas- Y ming-instruments.

Having thus fully- 'described my said invention, What I claim is- The guides E, .combined with the slide D, spring el, vand foot-rule 1)', substantially as and for the purpose' set forth.

In testimony of said invention I havehereunt-o set my hand in prescnce-ofv JOEIN C. F. BREMSER.

Witnesses:

` WILLiAM W..Hnnrucn,

ROBERT BURss. 

